Lie to Me

2009 • FOX
4.6
76 reviews
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Season 3 episodes (13)

1 In the Red
10/4/10
Season-only
Lightman goes to great lengths to prevent a man fueled by revenge from robbing a bank. In the process, Lightman sets to right a wrong by holding a guilty man accountable for his actions.
2 The Royal We
10/11/10
Season-only
Lightman defends a wrongly accused man from an increasingly hostile mob. In the process of exonerating him, Lightman uncovers a dark secret that helps a damaged mother and her daughter begin the healing process.
3 Dirty Loyal
10/18/10
Season-only
The Lightman Group is hired to examine police profiling techniques in the wake of an incident involving Wallowski (guest star Monique Curnen), and Internal Affairs attempts to leverage Lightman's relationship with Wallowski to get him to incriminate her.
4 Double Blind
10/25/10
Season-only
While vetting an art museum staff for security leaks prior to a major exhibition, Lightman meets a beautiful woman (guest star Tricia Helfer) who entangles him in a game of cat-and-mouse.
5 The Canary's Song
11/8/10
Season-only
When Lightman investigates a coal mine explosion that killed six miners, he suspects that foul play may have been involved. To find the truth, he puts his life at risk and descends below the surface. Meanwhile, the FBI comes back to The Lightman Group looking for help with another case, and Foster and Torres offer to work pro bono.
6 Beyond Belief
11/15/10
Season-only
Lightman goes head-to-head with the leader of a self-help empire (guest star David Sutcliffe) to free a wealthy woman (guest star Julia Campbell) who may be under the control of the cult-like leader. When Lightman begins to investigate, things get personal as he suspects the group of threatening him and his daughter, Emily.
7 Veronica
11/22/10
Season-only
Lightman helps a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's (guest star Annette O'Toole) solve the puzzle of her fractured memory. In the process, he unearths a secret that could prove deadly in the present.
8 Smoked
11/29/10
Season-only
The terminally ill owner of a successful chain of restaurants (guest star John Amos) hires Lightman to fulfill his dying wish: track down his daughter's killer. In the process, Lightman uncovers the twisted dynamic of the fractured family empire, leading him to suspect sibling rivalry as the motive and that the patriarch's sons might be somehow responsible for the death of their sister, who was first in line to run the family business.
9 Funhouse
1/10/11
Season-only
Lightman is called to a mental hospital to determine if a patient is being held against his will. Attempting to have the patient released, Lightman finds himself descending down a path that forces him to question his own sanity and brings him face-to-face with his own past.
10 Rebound
1/10/11
Season-only
Lightman is hired by a wealthy woman to do a background check on her new boyfriend, so he digs deep into the man's past to find out the truth about this social chameleon.
11 Saved
1/17/11
Season-only
Lightman is hired to investigate three high school students responsible for a fatal traffic accident, which takes a turn for the better when he finds the heroic paramedic who was first on the scene.
12 Gone
1/24/11
Season-only
A baby goes missing, and her mother accuses an unknown person of the kidnapping. When Lightman sees she's hiding something, he digs deeper and discovers a family in need of repair.
13 Killer App
1/31/11
Season-only
Foster's former patient, one of the founders of a social-networking app, comes to the Lightman Group when she thinks she's being squeezed out by her partner. When she turns up dead a short time later, Lightman fights against the prevailing evidence to expose the truth behind the murder.

About this show

Inspired by the scientific discoveries of real life body language specialist and criminal investigator Dr. Paul Eikman, the weekly police detective series Lie to Me follows Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his special team of experts as assist local police, government agencies, and federal law enforcement in solving some of their most difficult cases. Dr. Lightman can detect a lie simply by studying a person's face, body, voice, and speech. The simplest gesture can tip Dr. Lightman off. He can read every emotion from, from jealousy, to sexual attraction, to resentment his subject had thought they kept hidden. But as helpful as this talent is in his professional life, it often proves a curse in his personal life. As the leader of The Lightman Group, Dr. Lightman presides over a team comprised of gifted psychologist Dr. Gillian Foster (Kelli Williams), who always has a solid grasp on the big picture, lead researcher Eli Loker (Brendan Hines), who despises the human tendency to lie to such a degree that he practices "radical honesty," and agency newcomer Ria Torres, a true natural in the field of deception detection. Together, The Lightman Group can sniff out any lie, and ensure that justice is served even when the culprit is a master manipulator.

Ratings and reviews

4.6
76 reviews
Anson Li
August 22, 2014
Season one was the best. Then the change in formula for season two ran into trouble. The show never got it's mojo back after that.
Lori Watt
February 18, 2015
I really enjoyed this show, deep and very enjoyable
Shane Grant
June 21, 2014
Great show that never got the proper finish. To bad